Don’t bore us, get to the chorus. That’s what the hit songwriters say. But, if done well, an epic rock intro locks in one’s attention in anticipation of what’s next. In the 1960s, albums began to ...

While pop music was rising up the ranks in the 1980s—each year, the sticky songs gained more and more momentum thanks to artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson—there were still a plethora of classic ...